Background
McSkimming was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to George Francis and Mary Teresa McCann McSkimming. He was named after Dent H. Robert and Florence D. White with whom his father worked at the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.
McSkimming was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to George Francis and Mary Teresa McCann McSkimming. He was named after Dent H. Robert and Florence D. White with whom his father worked at the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.
Stanford University.
He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1951. He began his sportswriting career at the Saint Louis Star in 1913 and switched to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch in 1922, where he worked until his retirement in 1961. He worked for a third Saint Louis newspaper, the Saint Louis Globe-Democrat as a police reporter.
During World War I, Dent McSkimming served as a pharmacist"s mate on a Navy gunboat.
In 1931, he worked at an English-language newspaper in Mexico City. McSkimming attended Stanford University for one year.
During World World War II, he served as a Red Cross field representative in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone. McSkimming was the only American journalist at the in Brazil, though he paid his own way to the event when his employer decided not to send him to cover lieutenant
He witnessed the United States" historic upset of England at that tournament describing it as "if Oxford University sent a baseball team over here and it beat the Yankees."
Dent McSkimming was played by Terry Kinney as the younger Dent McSkimming and Patrick Stewart as the older McSkimming in the 2005 movie The Game of Their Lives, which has been distributed in Digital Video Disc under the title "Miracle Match.".